Re: Questions from a newbie

2006-12-05 Thread Adam Gould
Hardeep Singh wrote: 1. While creating the key, I noticed RSA is sign only. Does it mean an RSA key cannot be used to encrypt? Why so - even RSA is now in public domain I believe. PGP (the free version) also allows RSA keys. No, it does not mean that you *can't* use RSA to encrypt. You would

Smart Card Use with GnuPG

2006-11-29 Thread Adam Gould
Hi all, I was looking into Smart Cards for use with GnuPG email encryption (I'm running Windows XP with Thunderbird and Enigmail) and found that the OpenPGP Smart Card from g10code only supports 1024 bit RSA keys. I'm aware that there are some Smart Cards available (not OpenPGP branded) that